how does one get thier Youtube picture still to appear in search indexing

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I don't know, but I would imagine that as the video is on a site you have no control over, you have no control over whether it's listed with an image or not. Possible factors might be the number of views of the video, or it's rating, but without some pretty broad data collection and analysis it's impossible to say with any certainty.